Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Mid-Week Post

Quickly now...

Mall safety? How about: why do we not destroy Islamists for once and for all? How many more malls must be shot up before we accept that the biggest current threat to domestic and international security isn't the Lutherans?

Some malls around the world have been scrambling to add security guards
to look for suspicious people following a deadly attack on a shopping
centre in Nairobi over the weekend. But for other malls, it's been
business as usual. ...

Security concerns come after 12 to 15 al-Shabab militants, wielding
grenades, took control of Westgate mall in Nairobi. Terrorists held
Kenya security forces for four days, killing at least 67 civilians and
government troops and injuring 175 others. The Kenyan government said
Tuesday that the attackers were defeated, with several suspects killed
or arrested.

I didn't see the word "Islamist" in there, nor did I read an account of how the "militants" went about maiming and killing their victims according to religion. THAT is the bigger concern. It amounts to nothing to scrutinise every airplane passenger and possibly every shopper when the larger problem of Islamist terror goes ignored.

But it was on the subject of Iran that President Obama was perhaps at
his scariest. He drew a straight line between Iranian “mistrust” of
America and Americans mistrust of the thugs and murderers in Iran. And
anyway, it was merely a “difficult history” – which is bad news for the
Americans currently languishing in Iranian prisons and being killed by
Iranian-backed terrorists on numerous battlefields.

The light on the horizon,
cheered the President, was coming from none other than Iran’s Supreme
Leader and President Rouhani themselves. Both have said “that the
Islamic republic will never develop a nuclear weapon.”

In Obama’s view, “These statements…should offer the basis for a
meaningful agreement…giving the world confidence that the Iranian
program is peaceful.” Except that its program isn’t peaceful. And these statements offer the basis for a one-way trip down the yellowbrick road to an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Pre-conditions.

Watch this epic takedown of CBC darling, David Suzuki, on Australian television:

It must be difficult to be put on the spot particularly when forever wading in the shallow end of the intellectual pool. Believing that Australians were ignorant kangaroo riders, it must have been quite an education for Suzuki to be challenged on his outrageous views.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke to reporters following his 21 hour and
19 minute speech on the floor of the Senate. Cruz discussed the
problems of Obamacare during that time with the intention of convincing
his Senate colleagues to vote "no" on a cloture vote that would allow
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to strip the House's continuing
resolution of its measure to defund Obamacare with a bare minimum vote
in the upper chamber.

The military was called on June 25 after an ice floe on Admiralty
Inlet, near Arctic Bay on Baffin Island, broke away during the night
with a tour group and an Inuit hunting party camping atop.

The rescue mission started after the tour group — comprised of 10
tourists from Japan, Jordan, Australia, Britain, France, United States
and Canada and 10 staff — noticed the floe, 50 kilometres long and 25 km
wide, was drifting toward the Northwest Passage.